- At a time of existential and specific threat to the physical and human environment we live in, architect Nili Portugali takes us on a deeply intimate journey to the Galilean 'Kaballa' holy city of Tzfat in Israel. And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue remembers and imagines a childhood journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic/Buddhist/scientific point of view. Portugali asks: What is the secret of all the great timeless buildings of the past, villages, tents and temples endowed with beauty and soul in which humans feel 'at home,' and what is the ancient, essential 'art of making' that creates them, in all cultures, in all places and times? Portugali's quest centers on the birthplace and hometown of her family since early 19th century, where her grandmother founded her hotel, in a small stone building around a patio at the end of an alley in the old city that no longer exists. It's a trip through time and memory.
- At a time of existential threat to the physical and human environment we live in, Architect Nili Portugali takes us into a deeply intimate journey in the Galilean 'Kabbala' holy city of Tsefat. A childhood journey that unfolds gradually from her present holistic / phenomenological / Buddhist / scientific Point of View (replacing current thoughts and approaches) to a discovery of profound universal insights of: What is their secret of all those great timeless buildings of the past, cities, villages, tents and temples endowed with beauty and soul in which man feels 'at home', and what is that One pure 'art of making' which is thousands of years old that creates them (any the Arts), at any culture, at any place and at any time. That, via reconstructing in her unique poetic meditative cinematic language her childhood memories engraved on each stone of the invisible city's history with cultural heritage of more than1000 years that no longer exists, and is totally forgotten. The birth place and hometown of her family since early 19th century, where her grandmother founded her hotel, in a small stone building around a patio at the end of an alley in the old city.
"Using my body of knowledge and experience I have been accumulating in multidisciplinary creative work in the visual arts; writing and Architecture as my main profession, the film both in form and content, explore and cross new boundaries, and straddle the line between art and cinema".
Notes Directing my film "And the alley she whitewashed in light blue " I come from the domain of Architecture / Visual Art / Researcher/ Published author. 7th generation descendant of a family living in the holly 'Kabbala' city of Tsefat, Israel since the early 19th century. The film is the third of Creative TRILOGY following the world-known buildings I designed & the published books I wrote . The film both in form and content, explore and cross new boundaries, and straddle the line between art and cinema". My multidisciplinary work focuses on both practice and theory, and is tightly connected to the Holistic school of thought. A worldview which stands in recent years at the forefront of the scientific discourse as a whole and is in convergence with the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy, two worlds to which my work is associated with, apparently underlying the essence of my film.
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